ember 1909.

DHAR, a native state of India, in the Bhopawar agency, Central India. It
includes many Rajput and Bhil feudatories, and has an area of 1775 sq.
m. The raja is a Punwar Mahratta. The founder of the present ruling
family was Anand Rao Punwar, a descendant of the great Paramara clan of
Rajputs who from the 9th to the 13th century, when they were driven out
by the Mahommedans, had ruled over Malwa from their capital at Dhar. In
1742 Anand Rao received Dhar as a fief from Baji Rao, the peshwa, the
victory of the Mahrattas thus restoring the sovereign power to the
family which seven centuries before had been expelled from this very
city and country. Towards the close of the 18th and in the early part of
the 19th century, the state was subject to a series of spoliations by
Sindia and Holkar, and was only preserved from destruction by the
talents and courage of the adoptive mother of the fifth raja. By a
treaty of 1819 Dhar passed under British protection, and bound itself to
act in subordinate co-operation. The state was confiscated for rebellion
in 1857, but in 1860 was restored to Raja Anand Rao Punwar, then a
minor, with the exception of the detached district of Bairusia, which
was granted to the begum of Bhopal. Anand Rao, who received the personal
title Maharaja and the K.C.S.I. in 1877, died in 1898, and was succeeded
by Udaji Rao Punwar. In 1901 the population was 142,115. The state
includes the ruins of Mandu, or Mandogarh, the Mahommedan capital of
Malwa.

THE TOWN OF DHAR is 33 m. W. of Mhow, 908 ft. above the sea. Pop. (1901)
17,792. It is picturesquely situated among lakes and trees surrounded by
barren hills, and possesses, besides its old walls, many interesting
buildings, Hindu and Mahommedan, some of them containing records of a
great historical importance. The Lat Masjid, or Pillar Mosque, was built
by Dilawar Khan in 1405 out of the remains of Jain temples. It derives
its name from an iron pillar, supposed to have been originally set up at
the beginning of the 13th century in commemoration of a victory, and
bearing a later inscription recording the seven days' visit to the town
of the emperor Akbar in 1598. The pillar, which was 43 ft. high, is now
overthrown and broken. The Kamal Maula is an enclosure containing four
tombs, the most notable being that of Shaikh Kamal Maulvi
(Kamal-ud-din), a follower of the famous 13th-century Mussulman saint
Nizam-ud-din Auliya.[1] The mosque known as Raja B